3. Napalm-Girl

                                                                  Napalm Girl:
I find this picture appropriate, because the child who runs nakedly is shown the world how violent and sad in the same time during the Vietnamese war. In Digital world, a message through words and especially pictures are important so that peoples’ emotions and feelings can react what picture is trying to say. Media fluency in digital world which comes with a message that is all about the content and the outcome (Digital Citizenship, 2016:71). The two elements need each other because you may know the outcome so well but the content is needed as a background (Digital Citizenship, 2016:71).
This picture of a Napalm girl is a desperate message that really needs the world’s attention so that they can have a sympathy and a participation to assist them in times of need. So in my opinion this picture is a cry for a help which pictures like this is good at attracting peoples’ eyes immediately because it’s rare to see a crying child with a nudity besides an infant.  The outcome of this picutres is that messages with sad pictures will end up becoming worse with deaths that will include families with children lying on the floor and the pictures will seem more tragic than the previous ones.

 (2016). Digital Citizenship Module Manual. Cape Town: Independent Institute of Education

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